I have been using ns2 and nam for a long time on my ubuntu. Now I have to apply a patch (OSPF) to it. I have been searching for how to apply a patch in linux (as I'm kind of new in it) and all I got ...

I previously used Linux 3.0.35 to customize the OS for an IMX based board. I'm now planning to upgrade it to Linux 3.10.17. The customization was compiled into patches, (80+ patches!).
My problem now ...

I want to apply an rt patch to the latest stable vanilla kernel, which is 3.17.4 currently. The latest rt-patch found are for 3.14.24. Does that mean I have to use the the 3.14.x family, and can not ...

We have over 10000 servers to patch for bash vulnerability (shellshock) bug. Now my question is what is the command to patch this bug ? And how we can check whether the patch has been installed and ...

I am about to install a patch for wireless drivers named Compat Wireless in order to solve a problem with my WiFi channel (it locks on the not existing -1 channel) on my Ubuntu Linux v12.04 and Kali ...

I am currently installing ModSecurity on our development servers and the problem that I am running into with the latest version is that we are utilizing RHEL 4 on our servers. They have no intention ...

Let's say that I am using a program called "hello" which I have downloaded using the zypper. The question is how can I see if a specific .patch is included into this hello package?
Basically, what I ...

I would like to create a patch from a specific gcc branch comparing it to the official releases; so when I unpack the tarball from the stable release, I can apply the patch and get the equivalent of ...

I heard that bash-3.2-33.el5_10.4 is a CVE-7169 patch for CentOS 5.
So I found an announcement from CentOS website below.
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-September/020594.html
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Recently, to deal with newly revealed SSL bugs I upgraded my pure Debian distribution. OpenSSL reports a version number of 1.0.1e which is not the latest, however, I am told that it is ok, because the ...

I am trying to fix a patch, and reviewed a couple of very interesting urls. One of which is this one: Handling Patch Rejects I like to make sure I am understanding the patch and the problem correctly. ...

I am trying to apply a patch that is provided by the seek-for-android project to code I downloaded from Cyanogenmod. The code compiled successfully with make, so I know all the files are there. I just ...

I am trying to patch a linux 3.13.7 source tree to 3.13.8 using the patch-3.13.8.xz file. Since the patch file is in xz format, I used the following command to apply it while in the source tree:
unxz ...

I have a Sun Ultra Enterprise 2 running Solaris 8 (Generic_108528-11). This hasn't had any patches applied for years. I just now got the configuration right for connecting to the internet through my ...

I am trying to do a mini code review for new source code that I have in a folder. The code is not in any kind of version control. Is it possible to create a patch file from this so I can post it for ...

I'm looking for a signals logger for the Linux kernel, without patching of kernel.
I found many articles with patching, but I am not interested in that.
I'm running default Ubuntu 13.04.
# uname -a
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I have submitted a patch to the linux kernel that has gotten several reviews and gone through a couple iterations on the mailing list. It has been ACKed and reviewed by two developers, but they say ...